Geographic Information Systems Applications on an ATM-Based Distributed High Performance Computing System

摘要

We present a distributed geographic information systems (DGIS) built on a distributed high performance computing environment (1) using a number of software infrastructural building blocks and computational resources interconnected by an ATM-based broadband network. Archiving, access and processing of scientific data are discussed in the contest of geographic and environmental applications with special emphasis son the potential for local-area weather agriculture, soil and land management products. In particular, we discuss the capabilities of a distributed high-performance environment incorporating: high bandwidth communications networks such as Telstra's Experimetnal Broadband Network (EBN((3); large capacity hierarchical storage systems; and high performance parallel computing resources.